2 die, 5 others missing after being swept away in Chambal

Karauli: Two persons were killed and five others were missing on Saturday after a group was swept away by a water current while crossing the Chambal river on foot in Karauli district.

Police said that 10 people have been rescued out of the 17 belonging to two families of MP’s Shivpuri district who stepped into the river thinking the water level was shallow. Superintendent of Police P Karauli Narayan Togas said the bodies of a man, identified as Devkinandan, and a woman, Kallo, were fished out from the river while five persons were still missing, were feared drowned.